We continue our conversation around the water and electricity problem at the Maluti a Phofung municipality. The conversation started on Friday with a call from a resident called Motebang who complained that they don’t have electricity. We then did a follow-up with Lwando Zonke – Acting Director: Infrastructure and technical services at the municipality. So today we speak to South African Local Governemnt Association in the Free State to get their perspective on the problem as we welcome....

Guest: Cllr Matawana Mlamleli – SALGA Free State Chairperson

Scores of Pensioners, some of them ill, had to stand for up to five hours waiting for their old age grants at the Westgate Mall in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg yesterday. There were snaking queues as some of them travelled from different townships trying to avoid long queues at their local Sassa pay points. The problem was also experienced in various other parts of the country, with social distancing not being observed.

Guest: Paseka Letsatsi – Spokesperson for the SA Social Security Agency

The Fair trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) says it has filed a court application challenging government's ban on the sale of cigarettes. This after President Cyril Ramaphosa came out in defense of the decision in his weekly letter in which he asserts that the decision was taken collectively. Ramaphosa's comments follow British American Tobacco's threat to take legal action against Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma if her office could not offer a formal response about why the ban cigarette sales remains in place. To get their views on this,

Guest: Sinenhlanhla Mnguni – Chairperson of the Fair trade Independent Tobacco Association

Since President Ramaphosa’s please to the private sector to get involved in fighting the Covid-19, many entities have heeded the call in their own way. This morning we turn our focus on the #Soap4Hope campaign. They have been distributing food and hygiene products across the country. What made them come forward and also join forces with South Africa’s beloved Springbok captain Siya Kolisi?

Guest: Richard Mabaso - CEO of the Imbumba Foundation

Guest: Sello Hatang

May being Africa Month, we turn our focus on how the continent is dealing with the issue of Covid-19. The concern from human rights bodies is how some of the abusive leaders on the continent are using the lockdowns to abuse their citizens. Also the impact this may have on countries that may be heading to the polls this year. Case in point is in Zimbabwe how a court had to rule that police should stop beating people and also the Harare City Council has demolished illegal structures across the capital city under the lockdown. Interestingly, yesterday Prof Patrick Lumumba reflected on African leadership,

Guest: Corlett Letlojane – Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa

As the country entered level 4 of the lockdown, concern is not only on reviving the economy, but also education. The higher education sector has also been hard hit as institutions are looking at ways they can implement distance learning. Could it be something that all university can implement and stay with beyond the Covid-19 crisis?

Guest: Prof Mandla Makhanya - Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa

On Friday we received calls from residents of Maluti a Phofung who were complaining about the outage of power in their area. They were blaming mismanagement of the municipality as the problem. Before we get the municipality’s side of the story,

Guest: Lwando Zonke – Acting Director: Infrastructure and technical services

Not taking it too far in history, one can go back to an era where royalty ruled the world and decided on everyone’s future and education level. But then as expected, revolutions took over. The most popular being the French and the Russian revolutions where ordinary people took over. In Russia it was the peasants and the factory worker who were in the midst of things, giving birth to the symbol of the hammer and sickle. Even though it’s associats mostly with communism, the hammer represented the industrial workers while the sickle represents the peasantry. The worker’s voice was powerful throughout history. But today, we see mass retrenchments, be it factories closing, SOEs collapsing and the list goes on. Where did it go wrong?

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi - The South African Federation of Trade Unions

Guest: Gideon Du Plessis – General Secretary of Trade Union Solidarity

Guest: Riefdah Ajam - General Secretary for the Federation of Unions of South Africa

Guest: Michael Shingage – Cosatu’s Deputy President

Guest: Dr Dino Chetty - Specialist Oncologist who consults at 1 Military Hospital

Guest: Nomusa Dube-Ncube KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Economic Development, Tourism & Environmental Affairs